Breaches and Hacks Archive
July 2019 was one of the worst months ever from a cyber security perspective. With incidents like the massive breach at the Chinese tech supplier Orvibo and another leaked database filled with Evite customers’ personal details, the second half of the year began with a mammoth 2,226,042,039 breached records.
Haga Hospital, based in the Netherlands, was this week fined €460,000 by the Dutch data protection authority (AP) for breaching the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Haga was investigated by the AP after 85 hospital employees had access to the medical records of Samantha de Jong, AKA Barbie, a well-known Dutch reality TV star.
Phishing is a constant threat for organisations and individuals alike. The scam, which involves sending emails that masquerade as legitimate organisations to fraudulently obtain sensitive information, targets hundreds of millions of organisations and people daily. Microsoft OneNote users are the latest target of a phishing scam. An email entitled “New Audio Note …
Ireland’s DPC (Data Protection Commissioner) has launched a third investigation into Apple’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance. The investigation will examine the tech giant’s compliance with the relevant GDPR provisions in relation to a customer’s DSAR (data subject access request).
It’s been a bad month for Australia and Canada: dumped out of the Women’s World Cup and responsible for 13 data breaches.
Meanwhile, another Irish hospital has left medical records on a city street for the public to find and local …
The FAI (Football Association of Ireland) confirmed yesterday that servers in its Dublin headquarters were breached in an external hack over the weekend.
You might have noted that data breaches happen a lot. We post about incidents as often as we can, but it’s practically impossible to keep up. That’s why we’ve decided to start compiling a monthly list of incidents from stories reported around the globe. In our inaugural list, …
Ireland’s DPC (Data Protection Commission) has launched a statutory enquiry into how Google Ireland processes data for the purpose of advertising. The probe is the result of a number of submissions to the DPC.
Cyber security researchers have discovered a class of vulnerabilities in Intel chips that could be exploited to steal sensitive information, unencrypt data and spy on tasks handled by the processor. The bugs, dubbed ‘ZombieLoad’, affect almost every computer that uses an Intel …
Kool King, an online shop owned by Burger King, had thousands of customer records exposed through an unsecured database, which was discovered last week. The breached database, which potentially contained the data of children who signed up for the service, was discovered by Bob Diachenko of Security Discovery.
